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Former UNU-FTP fellow and scholarship recipient, Taabu Anthony Munyaho, has recently been selected for the Director position at the National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFIRI) in Uganda.

This week the UNU-FTP had the honor to welcome the UNU rector, Dr. David Malone, to Iceland. This mission provided a valuable chance to discuss the direction and growth of the UNU programmes operating in Iceland.

Wishing warm congratulations to UNU-FTP fellow and scholarship recipient Warsha Singh, who defended her doctoral dissertation on Friday, June 12, 2015.

Former UNU-FTP fellow and scholarship recipient Warsha Singh will defend her PhD at the University of Iceland this Friday, June 12 at 10:00 in the Main Building. Her doctoral dissertation, "Towards efficient benthic survey design with the use of autonomous underwater vehicles" was funded through the United Nations University Fisheries Training Programme.

This week, the UNU-FTP concluded a study tour and parallel workshop for high-level partners. In total, 13 high level representatives from a collection of ministries, research centers, and regional governing organizations joined the 10 day study tour in Iceland. The overall aims of the study tour were to expose key UNU-FTP partners to the type of education and training they can expect fellows to receive in the six month training, and to stimulate constructive conversation around main challenges facing global fisheries development and how we can work together in a more constructive way to solve them through policy.

On Monday March 23, 2015, the UNU-FTP celebrated the graduation of the 17th cohort of the six month training in Iceland.